Season 1 always tend to lose steam, near the end. We Are Family and What Makes Sammy Run, are good episodes, but they aren't really funny. And the drama don't take you either. Also I don't get how the « What Ever Happened to Baby Jane » skit, could appeal to teenagers... Two Weddings and A Funeral, marks the return of Ryan Murphy taking the reins. And it is as insane as we would expect of him back then. Just like Dawson's Creek did on « Decisions », the first year finale mocked all of the tactics, networks used to get big ratings. And in a show like Popular, it's full on crazy with the tackiest storylines, that go all the way, until that very last second « winner! » twist. Where one of the Tuna sisters drops dead, during the disrupted Wedding ceremony. Everyone's been talking about. Only not for the same reasons... If you love the unapologetic and the kookiness, you will worship this episode. And if you don't, you will find it stupid, or boring even. Maybe insulting, because it still kind of feels like a cop out. But at least now you know how the season ends...
2 Reviews
crazy fun for those that way inclined
RavenGlamDVDCollector3 February 2017
(5 minus, actually)
Tonight's episode: Season finale sees everything going into a musical, I kid thee not. Once it starts, it actually seems it's gonna stay that way. Do not adjust your set.
Some multiple choice: Ryan Murphy, when he wrote this, was (a) stoned (b) high (c) in flagrante delecto. How the hell could he otherwise have had the utter gall to inflict this final insult upon the viewing public?
You have to see this episode for yourself to understand my rant. It has got to be a dream sequence, nothing, nothing, makes sense. It revels in just exactly that. Is it truly funny, is it good zany comedy? No, it is just junk.
Takes the cake home from the fun fair for being out there.
It's been this way from almost the beginning.
I wouldn't have had anything against the concept of a surreal cartoonish TV show, but when I set out to buy this on DVD, I had thought it to be something along the lines of BEVERLY HILLS 90210. You know, with the rivalry between Kelly Taylor (Jennie Garth) and the Tiffani-Amber Thiessen character. I do not do too much research before buying, lest I encounter spoilers, so I generally just find out about the cast and a basic summary. And I had very, very high hopes for POPULAR. Okay, so I had a pre-conceived idea of what it might be, and I thought, two girls flying into each other's hair regularly, could only be fun.
That is what it is about. Ostensibly. But it's really just campy old Ryan Murphy of NIP/TUCK doing a freaking gay parade. Just like in NIP/TUCK, two out of every three characters are, well, not only gay, they are super-super-super gay, it becomes an endless buzz of very odd people of dubious orientation. Do not get me wrong. I do not have anything against crazies. I am one myself. But the theme, what it should have been, took second place to Ryan's mission to do a whole GLAD field day, obviously lasting 43 weeks. Things just get too weird for straight boys. Just like in NIP/TUCK. This one isn't advertised as such, not packaged as such, it's not the teen rivalry show it should be, it is a murky mess of surreal happenings, with the queerest goings-on. Queer, man, queer.
Yes, two really great female leads. I am fond of them. But I wanna boo the story-line week after week. Junk followed by more tripe followed by absolute drivel.
You could laugh at it. You could roll around in stitches, I suppose. It's really not as funny as the creators think it is. But okay, sure there are moments. The whole thing is however EMBARRASSING, and that really gets to the nitty-gritty of my argument. Admit that you enjoy POPULAR to your friends? Ooh you must be a nut. With a low IQ. You have to be. A true guilty pleasure for the totally low-class. Like NIP/TUCK.
But with two high-class lead actresses. Leslie Bibb, Carly Pope, you should have been in MELROSE PLACE.
Tonight's episode: Season finale sees everything going into a musical, I kid thee not. Once it starts, it actually seems it's gonna stay that way. Do not adjust your set.
Some multiple choice: Ryan Murphy, when he wrote this, was (a) stoned (b) high (c) in flagrante delecto. How the hell could he otherwise have had the utter gall to inflict this final insult upon the viewing public?
You have to see this episode for yourself to understand my rant. It has got to be a dream sequence, nothing, nothing, makes sense. It revels in just exactly that. Is it truly funny, is it good zany comedy? No, it is just junk.
Takes the cake home from the fun fair for being out there.
It's been this way from almost the beginning.
I wouldn't have had anything against the concept of a surreal cartoonish TV show, but when I set out to buy this on DVD, I had thought it to be something along the lines of BEVERLY HILLS 90210. You know, with the rivalry between Kelly Taylor (Jennie Garth) and the Tiffani-Amber Thiessen character. I do not do too much research before buying, lest I encounter spoilers, so I generally just find out about the cast and a basic summary. And I had very, very high hopes for POPULAR. Okay, so I had a pre-conceived idea of what it might be, and I thought, two girls flying into each other's hair regularly, could only be fun.
That is what it is about. Ostensibly. But it's really just campy old Ryan Murphy of NIP/TUCK doing a freaking gay parade. Just like in NIP/TUCK, two out of every three characters are, well, not only gay, they are super-super-super gay, it becomes an endless buzz of very odd people of dubious orientation. Do not get me wrong. I do not have anything against crazies. I am one myself. But the theme, what it should have been, took second place to Ryan's mission to do a whole GLAD field day, obviously lasting 43 weeks. Things just get too weird for straight boys. Just like in NIP/TUCK. This one isn't advertised as such, not packaged as such, it's not the teen rivalry show it should be, it is a murky mess of surreal happenings, with the queerest goings-on. Queer, man, queer.
Yes, two really great female leads. I am fond of them. But I wanna boo the story-line week after week. Junk followed by more tripe followed by absolute drivel.
You could laugh at it. You could roll around in stitches, I suppose. It's really not as funny as the creators think it is. But okay, sure there are moments. The whole thing is however EMBARRASSING, and that really gets to the nitty-gritty of my argument. Admit that you enjoy POPULAR to your friends? Ooh you must be a nut. With a low IQ. You have to be. A true guilty pleasure for the totally low-class. Like NIP/TUCK.
But with two high-class lead actresses. Leslie Bibb, Carly Pope, you should have been in MELROSE PLACE.
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